Young scholars, after exploring the history of tragedies and analyzing Aristotelian elements in Greek/Roman tragedies, create their own tragedy set in modern context. They formulate their creations from an Aristotle platform. In...

Students collect and analyze the front pages of various newspapers and perform research on the Titantic tragedy. They choose a name for their newspaper, a headline, gather photographs, and write a front page article. Using computer...

Students investigate how safe their school is. There have been a lot of changes after the Dunblane tragedy in 1995, when a man broke into a primary school and killed 16 students and a teacher.Students discuss some of the changes that...

Young scholars comprehension widens on the subject of the Holocaust by focusing on two different, yet related, experiences of Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. Those being death camps and life in major ghettos. They trace both...

Bring the Internet and the Renaissance together in this presentation assignment. Middle schoolers give a presentation on the Renaissance, using computers to both research and create the slides. The lesson includes a short assessment as...

Students explore an important role of environmental engineers by studying the Exxon Valdez oil spill. They experiment with different strategies in order to clean up their own manufactured oil spill.

Students analyze how media shapes their perception of events. In this media lesson, students research the home pages of assigned web sites to determine how media influences how they feel about tragic event. They look at head lines about...

Students create a website. In this technology lesson, students use digital cameras and video to document their field trip to a local fish hatchery. Students use the photos and videos to create an instructional website.

Learners study how aviation professionals get certified to work for a commercial airline. They research how these professionals coordinate their skills to keep the skies safe for travelers.